Improvement in steam bell-ringers



Ntra Srarns WTILLIAM H. BEACH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 J. S. BEACH, OF BALLSTON SPA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM BELL-RINGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,42@ dated Apri] 19, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BEACH, of Chicago, in the count-y of Cook and State ct' Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Steam Bell-Ringer for Locomotives and other Purposes; and I do hereby ticolare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciication, in which- Figure l is an elevation of my bell-ringer, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the steam-wheel through which the power for ringing the bell is applied, corresponding with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 -is a horizontal section of a moditication of the said wheel.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in a steam bellringer of novel and very simple construction, intended more especially to be applied to locomotives for ringing whenever desired by the engineer, whether the locomotive is running or standing still, but applicable to other purposes. It is composed of a wheel with suitable floats placed in a suitable casin g, to which steam is admit ted by a small pipe from the boiler to act upon the iioats, and from which, after acting upon the buckets to produce a rotary motion of the wheel, it escapes by another pipe or opening` to the atmosphere, the shaft ot' the said wheel being furnished outside of the steam-casing. with a crank, which is connected by arod either wi th a rocker, to which the bell is attached to produce the swinging of the bell itself', or with the clapper, so that by the rotary motion of the crank the ringing of the bell is ett'ected.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A is the wheel, and B the steam-casing within which it is applied, the shaft a of the wheel being arranged horizontally and working in hearings in the sides ot' the casing, and one end being extended through the exterior ot' the casing to carry the crank b, which is firmly secured to it outside of the casing. To the rimv c of the wheel are attached the floats D D, their sides iitting between the sides of the casing B, and their inner edges to two concentric rims, e e, (shown in Figs. l and 2,)

which are formed upon or secured to the interiors of the sides of the casing, and which extend about three-fourths of the way round the casing, being omitted from f to g, Fig. l, below the exhaust-opening h.

i is the steam-pipe t'rom the boiler, entering the casing at the bottom in a direction tangential to the wheel. From where this pipe enters to within a distance from the exhaust-opening h, Soznewhat greater than the distance b -twe n two of the iioats D D, in the direction in which the wheel is to rotate, (indicated by an arrow in Fig. 1,) the periphery ot' the casing is of convolute form, as shown at ij in Fig. l, that the steam may pass the oats and expand in the casing, and thence to the exhaustopening the said periphery is concentric to the axis ot the wheel, so that the floats may work in close contact with it. In the opposil e direction from the steam-pipe the periphery of the casing is concentric to the wheel for a short distance, that the floats may lit to it to prevent the steam from passing toward the exhaustopening in that direction, and thence toward the exhaust opcnin g the said periphery is enlarged in convolute form, as shown at 7c l in Fig. 1.

m is the rod which connects the crank b either with the rocker n, to which the bell E is secured, to produce the ringing ot the bell by its own oscillation, or with the clapper of the bell, to produce the ringing by the oscillation ot' the clapper. The bell and the steamcasing are secured to lthe same base or bed plate, F, which is to be secured on the top of the boiler or to any other suitable support.

The rotary motion of the wheel A, produced by the pressure ofthe steam against the tioats.

c ofthe wheel ofthe t'ull width of the casing,

and having tlang'es d d formed upon the rim to tit between the sides of the casing and connect the floats and form buckets. In this case the rims c c of the casiu g are dispensedwith. 4

This bell-ringer is much simpler than the steam bell-fingers heretofore known, and, casing B, shaft a, and crank b, with a be] having no Valves 0r parts which are liable to substantially as and for the purpose herei get out of ordeigwil] be no trouble tothe enspecified.

gineer, and always in Working condition. WILLIAM H. BEACH. What I claim as my invention, and desire to Witnesses: secure by Letters Patent, is CALVIN D. WOLF,

The combination. of the wheel A7 steam- SAM. B. BLACKWELL. 

